Species Ectopiocephalus australis (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scaris australis Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [253].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (by monotypy), Moreton Bay, Queensland.
• Ectopiocephalus vanduzeei Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [464].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: xi.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Penthimia reticulata Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [108] [junior homonym; of Penthimia reticulata Stål, 1870].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Peak Downs, Queensland.
• Penthimia reticulosa Distant, W.L. 1911. Rhynchotal Notes. liii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 242-258 [258] [replacement name; for Penthimia reticulata Distant].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [150] (synonymy of P. reticulata)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [212] (synonymy of E. vanduzeei )

 

Generic Combinations

• Ectopiocephalus australis (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [212]

 

Introduction

This is the largest species of Australian Penthimiini and distinctive in shape with its broad rounded head giving a somewhat cercopoid appearance. It is associated with arid inland areas.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Red. Head somewhat brighter than the thorax. Fore wings cupreous-red, somewhat blackish at the tips. Hind wings blackish vitreous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. (Walker 1858).

Bluish black; vertex, pronotum and scutellum polished; beneath dull black. The whole surface more or less covered with red powder, doubtless similar to the white flocculence of the Fulgoroidea. The dorsal part of the irons, eyes, and small false-ocellar spots on vertex, etc., are certainly red, and possibly other parts, but it is impracticable (in the unique type) to determine what is colour, what powder. Length: 6¾ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906, of E. vanduzeei).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [464]

Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [253]

 

History of changes

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